Why I Create Robots

Why I Create Robots: Designing Future Lifestyles from Everyday Life
Hiroshi Ishiguro

186 mm x 130 mm
168 pages
JPY 1,300
ISBN 9784790717089
Pub date: March 2018

How will robots and AI change our lives?
From food, clothing, and shelter to love, work, and creative methods, Hiroshi Ishiguro, a leading robotics researcher, talks frankly about the joy of opening up a new world, life, and the future of living with robots.

Points of Appeal
1) Completely new writing
2) Full hints to think about how to live in the future
3) Attractive illustrations on the cover and in the book by Ms. Hisae Iwaoka, the illustrator of the manga Robot eating alone

Table of Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1 The taste of technology: Eating

Chapter 2 Functional beauty encompassing nudity: Wearing

Chapter 3 Language and the vivid world: Speaking

Chapter 4 The power to unlock reality: Imagine

Chapter 5 Evolving me and society: Work

Chapter 6 Shadows of machines and people: Belief

End of Chapter Designing yourself in the future

Reviews
“The genius’s one-of-a-kind view of the world is sure to inspire readers!”―The Weekly Economist, June 26, 2018

“All of his points are surprising and enjoyable…I hope you will read this book looking into the future.”― Mizuhito Kanehara,  translator

“Very interesting. I think it can be read from junior high and high school students.” ―Hiromitsu Yoshikawa, writer

“Too interesting. I didn’t know that he even had plastic surgery (wrinkle removal) to keep his appearance in line with a robot made to look like him (his appearance).”―Chikirin, writer

Author Information
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Born 1963 in Shiga Prefecture, lives in Osaka.
World-renowned authority on robotics research, who has created a series of androids that look just like him, as well as Beicho Katsura, Soseki Natsume, and others. Professor (Emeritus Professor), Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. Doctor of Engineering.